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Mr. Luddite

On 1/5/2016 9:58 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 17:24:49 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

I thought that in our system of government, majority rules.

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Not so fast there. One of the reasons that it took so long to hammer
out the original constitution is that the smaller states did not want
to be dominated by the larger ones. That's why we have two senators
per state regardless of population among other things. There are a
*lot* of people who do not want to be governed by the concepts and
needs of the big population centers but unfortunately that seems to be
the trend of things.

That's already been factored in before votes in the House of
Representatives takes place and, in most cases, a simple majority rules.
Some issues require a "super majority" but that is rare.